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AIR INTER TO PURCHASE 15 AIRBUS A330 PLANESThe French airline Air Inter has signed a contrac

The Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's policy-making arm, will likely ease credit conditions w

The Bank of France's decision Monday to raise its two key money market interest rates by 0.5 percen

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Spot shortages of home heating oil have cropped up throughout the Northeast as transportation bottle

The U.S. Department of Transportation once again has approved a flight certificate for Kris Kringle,

TNT Ltd. has 75,000 employees working in 185 countries. The numbers were incorrectly stated in a sto

Two of the toughest problems facing Brazilian airlines today are how best to use the limited cargo a

Booming air cargo demand and a worldwide shortage of aircraft for lease orpurchase has drive

Chemical dispersants, at the heart of oil spill containment strategies of Exxon Corp. and other majo

Is this any way for friends to act? Anyone witnessing the most recent round of trade talks b

American Airlines is expected to enter the trans-Pacific route to Australia without much controversy

Alliance Airport, the first U.S. industrial airport, incorporating air, rail and highway connections

Companies currently manufacturing or selling automobiles in Mexico will be allowed to import foreign

More than 4 million airline, maritime, trucking and railroad workers face a broad series of drug tes

Sea urchins are underwater pincushions whose pins stick out, not in. They are the bane of a

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Is Nintendo the culprit? The big news on the trade front is that this nation's merchandise t

There were no buyers willing to meet the minimum $18 million bid for the cruise ship Monterey at a j

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Direct Container Line, a Long Beach-based non-vessel-operating common carrier, will handle a project

Britain announced Monday it will press for multilateral agreement to eliminate export credit and aid

MACHINE TOOL ORDERS RISE 10.1 PERCENT IN JAPANMetal-cutting machine tool orders in October h

Some three dozen ocean vessels remained at berth in the Port of Montreal Monday, waiting to head to

Mon., Dec. 15, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

EC economic and finance ministers Monday adopted the final of three key directives for the post-199

Natural gas utilities in the Midwest say they are holding their own as an early deep-freeze grips th

The weekend devaluation by China of 21 percent is a sensible move but probably too little and too la

Nigeria may buy equity shares in about 12 European and U.S. refineries, Rilwanu Lukman, the country'

US RIG COUNT RISES BY 25 IN LATEST WEEKThe number of working U.S. oil and gas rigs climbed 2

For most of the decade, this corner of south Texas suffered the double whammy of drought and the oil

Koor, Israel's largest industrial company, cannot pay its debts without helpfrom creditors

The U.S.S.R. Merchant Marine Ministry said the new Soviet shipping organization known as "Sovcomflot

America's largest seagoing labor union said seamen on Panamanian-flag ships have the right to be ret

The Institute of International Container Lessors has released IICL-4, the fourth edition of its Guid

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AKZO NV (Arnhem, The Netherlands) - Richard M. Clarke was named president and chief executive office

Japanese chemical companies continue pouring money and technology into Malaysian projects, with the

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